FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Automatic hardware installation / system updates

["Nathan Whitehorn" <nathanw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there some overview somewhere of how to write drivers that use the 
new architecture, and what the new architecture is, exactly?
-Nathan

> mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > What about appending attributes to each driver, for example PCI 
> > > and Vendor ID...that could at least solve this problem...right?
> > No one has this information except the driver and (maybe) the PCI 
> > bus 
> > manager, AFAIK. 
> 
> Note, this will be done differently in Haiku - for the drivers that 
> use 
> the new driver architecture, it knows exactly which driver servers 
> which device and hardware (and vice versa).
> In R5 there is also this ioctl(): B_GET_DRIVER_FOR_DEVICE
> Haven't tested it yet, but it's supposed to return the path to the 
> driver for a specific device.
> 
> Bye,
>    Axel.
> 
> 


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